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Microsoft will make it somewhat easier for people running counterfeit copies of Windows to get legal as they upgrade to the newest edition, Windows 10, the company's top OS executive said Thursday.

The U.S. Army has for the first time tested swarms of consumer drones during a major military training exercise and determined the low-cost technology is at a stage where it could be used offensively.

If your computer was infected with the CoinVault or Bitcryptor ransomware programs you're in luck -- at least compared to other ransomware victims. Chances are high that you can now recover your encrypted files for free, if you still have them.

Ten times more power than lithium ion -- but still ten years off: A fluffy carbon electrode has brought scientists at Cambridge University a step closer to producing a workable lithium-air battery, but many technical challenges remain.

When you watch Walmart, you start to wonder where it wants to go with its business model, and whether it has any chance of ever getting there. Two moves that the giant retailer made this week powerfully illustrate this. One move is future-facing and at least somewhat bold, while the other seems aimed at protecting the existing bricks-and-mortar business model even as the chain makes a feint toward online.

Simplicity is a key selling point of Google's Project Fi wireless service. If you're coming to the service as an existing user of Google Voice, though, things can get awfully complicated.

Competitive difficulties have pressured many organizations to more aggressively adopt innovation as the cornerstone of their strategy to succeed in today’s global business environment. You may not realize it but three-quarters of all senior executives rank innovation as one of their company’s top strategic priorities. That came out of a survey by the Boston Consulting Group. 

Slow improvements over time are always the most impressive. It tends to reveal true commitment and character. That’s why, when I drove the new 2016 Cadillac CTS recently, I realized that this powerful and even sporty sedan has the makings of a really stand-out business car. (The first CTS debuted way back in 2002.)

LightCyber, whose specialty is active breach detection, is holding a 12-hour long hack game (or hacker simulation challenge) on Nov. 10, 2015.

A story posted late Thursday by The Wall Street Journal citing unnamed sources said that Alphabet plans to unveil a single, new operating system combining Android and Chrome in 2017 and that Google engineers have been already working for two years to combine the two.

It’s an Internet of Things (IoT) world, with everything from heating systems to manufacturing control systems to RFID tags collecting data -- and if you’re in an enterprise that data is coming your way, if it’s not already there.

The Xen Project fixed several vulnerabilities in its popular virtualization software, including one that could allow potential attackers to break out of a virtual machine and gain control over the host system.

Come the beginning of 2016, Microsoft will get much more assertive in distributing Windows 10 upgrades to consumers and small businesses, the company's top OS executive said Thursday.

In customary defiance of industry trends, Apple set fresh Mac sales records by selling 20.6 million machines over the last fiscal year. You could argue that its focus on constantly enhancing its products, rather than treating them as low value commodity items, is part of the reason it is able to do this. These ten things about the iMac support the notion:

Jun Feng, a defendant in a criminal case, has entered a guilty plea, removing pressure from a New York court to decide quickly whether Apple is required to aid investigators by bypassing his iPhone 5s passcode.

Facebook is on an aggressive push to gain users in emerging markets, and on Thursday it began tackling a new task: Making money from them.

Just one cybercriminal group may be collecting the revenue from Cryptowall 3.0, a malicious program that infects computers, encrypts files and demands a ransom, according to a new study released on Thursday.

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Looks like Google will kill off Chrome OS, folding it into Android. In 2017, we're told, Chromebooks will get a new name.

Microsoft's rollout of its Surface Book line of Windows laptops looks like a clear shot at Apple and a move by the company to insulate itself from trouble down the road should any of its big OEM partners bail on Windows 10 hardware.

Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration and identification system for drones.

The MIT Media Lab was launched in 1985 to bring together experts from different academic fields, founded on the idea that mixing and matching researchers and students, and encouraging people to draw on their unique experiences and perspectives, would yield previously unimaginable technological breakthroughs.

This rural county government doesn't have a lot of money for spare equipment -- which means an emergency generator for the data center isn't high on the county board's list of priorities, according to a pilot fish on the scene.

Of the three ways carriers might boost the capacity of the mobile networks we increasingly rely on, the one they will try in Geneva next month is probably the hardest.

After testing human-robot cooperation in space with its Kirobo robot, Toyota is working on a smaller version – actually a cup-holder sized robot – that can keep people company while they drive.